A Clean Getaway

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

An employee of a dry-cleaner was raped and murdered in the store, and investigators thought themselves fortunate to have two eyewitnesses. Their descriptions were similar but not identical, and the prime suspect didn't come close to resembling that person. So police turned to forensic science for the answers they needed.

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0:00.0	For years criminals used women's hosiery as a mask to hide their identities.
0:06.0	But today, to a forensic scientist,
0:09.0	hosiery can be as valuable as a fingerprint,
0:12.0	because of its signature characteristics.
0:16.0	And textile science identified a killer when an eyewitness couldn't.
0:31.0	In the small Midwestern town of Heron, Illinois,
0:36.0	murder was like a virtual stranger.
0:40.0	It's so rare that police thought this 911 call was a prank.
0:45.0	That one went emergency.
0:46.0	It's been a rape and a murder at the drive train in place.
0:49.0	It's been a rape and a murder.
0:51.0	Can you tell me where in the body and everything's at?
0:53.0	It's in the second place.
0:55.0	Take it to the door.
0:56.0	What is your name, sir?
0:57.0	I can't read it.
1:01.0	Police traced the call to a payphone near the center of town.
1:07.0	Just up the street was a dry cleaning store.
1:12.0	The front door was opened, and no one was there.
1:16.0	Behind the counter was a purse with its contents scattered all over the floor.
1:21.0	Right at that moment when we thought there was something serious here.
1:26.0	In the back room, behind a water heater.
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